PhysX and APEX Support for Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4

NVIDIA has announced that there PhysX and NVIDIA® APEX software development kits will be a major part of the upcoming Playstation 4 gaming system. The inclusion of this technology will allow upcoming games to have a greater real-world enviornment with better smoak and destruction features according to the developer.

[Dylila]

awesome. i cant wait for ps4

[Garethvk]

Often times a price is negotiated for the tech. Sort of a here is what we need what will you charge us to put your tech in our units. There is also times where a company pays to be incluced, depends on the project. I think you may see AMD in the Xbox now.

[Crueltylizer]

Really really glad to see nvidia taking the step to make PhysX and Apex available for next-gen!

[GiggMan]

This is really good news.

[first1NFANTRY]

keep rolling in the support. ps4 is looking brighter by the hour.

[SprigganN4G]

PS4 is the way to go this gen

[Fil101]

This gen or next gen ???

[SandWitch]

Why not both?

[SprigganN4G]

This gen; PS3, Wii and 360 are last gen since WiiU came out in November 2012.

[ApexHell]

bring on the Apex :D!

[SpartanGR]

I'm not that excited. Ps4 power (or any other next gen console) won't be enough for high end gfx + AA + Physx + 1080 60fps

[isarai]

But it'll easily be able to do all of that at 30FPS, which is all you need in most games, not many games are fast paced enough these days to really call for 60FPS

[decrypt]

Well you have Killzone which already is working at 30fps. If the PS4 was so powerful we would have seen 60fps. Specially this is a release game meaning its not going to be pushing hardware too much, hence 60fps should have easily been doable.

@isarai

"But it'll easily be able to do all of that at 30FPS, which is all you need in most games"

Thats not true. Ask any PC gamer aside RTS games nearly every other genre 60fps is way superior. You wont know it until you have tried it.

30fps feels sluggish in comparison.

[mandf]

Eurogamer did a tech analysis of Killzone and said their is nothing stopping GG from making the game 60fps hardware wise.

[Tei777]

I think 60fps looks weird :/

But then again I rarely play fps, which where they are supposed to make a difference. I'm playing MSG:Rising at the moment and I genuinely think it makes games look tacky. I will probs get a million thumbs down but I'd much prefer a consistent 30fps, but thats just me...

Edit: it could be something other then the framerate which creates this sensation but I find it the same in call of duty, but It doesn't bother me in that game

[brich233]

The people who disagree, obviously dont have a good pair of eyes, or they never played a game at 60fps.

[Coach_McGuirk]

if these guys played at 120fps they'd never be able to go back to 30fps.

[M-M]

@Tei777

"I think 60fps looks weird :/"

Stopped reading.

[lovegames718]

Annoying fake pc fanatics that talk "high end pc this and that" yet i bet they have a crappy rig lol An yeah yeah we know your crappy rig will blow ps4 away (stfu). Your not convincing anyone, thanx.

[kurac]

It's not "NVIDIA has announced that there PhysX...", but "NVIDIA has announced that THEIR PhysX...".

Btw, English is not my first language! Wtf?! Do you guys have a thing called education in USA?

[cyhm3112]

wow just wow, good grammar you have there. pointing out people's spelling mistakes on the internet, just wow. Is this your first day using internet or you are just so stupid. Who cares about these little things. I bet his English might be a lot better than yours. People just don't care.

[kurac]

Of course some people care, some don't. Obviously, you do not.

[Garethvk]

As I understand it, the PS 4 has a dual processor system. One is for images in the backgrounds and one if for the primary images and such. I am taking from this that they can do things like have all sorts of destruction smoke, fire, etc in both the foreground and background but they can be of differeing styles so you can get a real contrast of visuas plus some really good debris effects and such.

[Kennytaur]

No no no no no! The background processor is a smaller cpu for the operating system.

[Garethvk]

That makes more sense.

[Eyesoftheraven]

And Sony comes out swinging hard & accurate in the early moments of Round 4.

[arbitor365]

i wonder where all the people are who were saying that the PS4 wouldn't be that much of a leap over last gen consoles and that it would be about the same as the wii u.

they must feel pretty embarrassed right now

[DivineAssault]

Sony decides what/when nx gen is..

[black911]

The next Xbox will limit PlayStation games once again. Maybe????? I'm playing MLB 13 the Show and all I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!! graphics like this should be standard.

[Coach_McGuirk]

I played Diablo 3 last night with someone who thinks like you. He kept running off by himself away from the group then he'd blame us whenever he died.

[Garethvk]

The key is going to be exclusives. We have heard that designers like the PS 4 as it is very easy to work with compared to the PS 3 and they like the power and the new features it offers. The line we hear is that both the PS 4 and the new Xbox are impressive but the edge is given to the PS 4 though it is slight at this point. Whomever locks in the exclusives will have a huge leg up over the other one at launch.

[Mister_G]

Smoak? lol! :)

[kupomogli]

PS4 will have better smoak features than any PC. PC has better smoke features though. You win some, you lose some.

[kingPoS]

I haven't felt this excited for a console since Nov 06.

Chu chuuu "All a board the hype train, Next stop... E3"

[Garethvk]

I am all set for E3 but I would be suprised if they allow any hands on time. E3 is often for seeing it and not playing it. Although last year Aliens: Colonial Mariner, Borderlands 2, Wii U, Planetside 2, and a couple other ones had hands on.

[BitbyDeath]

PS4 games have already been confirmed to be playable at E3.

http://n4g.com/news/1181350...

[ahm]

I'm guessing Nvidia is more expensive

[ATi_Elite]

PS4 Physx and Apex support, NICE!

BUT How is Nvidia Physx gonna be on an AMD GPU?

I guess it will be CPU Physx which in turn will be offloaded to the GPU because it's a APU!

This has become very Interesting!!!